Flood waters of the Potomac and Wills Creek isolated hundreds of homes in Cumberland. This view of the stricken Western Maryland community was snapped from an airplane yesterday by a photographer. The streets of the city were covered with water, causing incalculable damage.
PICTURES OF CUMBERLAND FLOOD WATERS AT THEIR HEIGHTH
Top:
East on Baltimore street at Mechanic street
Below:
Market street bridge looking east
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WEATHER
Cloudy tonight. Probably rain or snow tomorrow, Colder,
VOL. CVIII. No. 66.
HAGERSTOWN, MD., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936.
POTOMAC FLOOD NEARING NEW PEAK; HOMES SWEPT AWAY
Crest Past Today In Flood-Battered Cumberland
DESOLATION IN WAKE OF HIGH WATER
Debris In Streets Of Queen City; Water Still In Business Area
CUMBERLAND, Md., Mar. 18 The raging waters of the rain-fed Potomac river and Will’s creek receded today
Johnstown Is Placed Under Military Rule
PICTURES OF CUMBERLAND FLOOD WATERS AT THEIR HEIGHTH
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Looking south on Centre street from B. & O. Viaduct
below:
Above Market street bridge
CCC Enrolled Here Help
Twenty men of the 1320th Company, CCC left Bond Camp, Westernport, Tuesday at 10:00 a. m., for Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, for the purpose of blood transfusions for James Cunningham, a member of the 2366th Company, CCC, Westernport, who was suffering from blood poisoning.
After forcing through slides along the nine mile trail from the camp to Westernport, the men arrived in Cumberland just a few minutes before the city was isolated by flood waters, only to find that Cunningham had died at noon.
NO PHONE SERVICE TO UP-CREEK TOWNS
Over 100 Families Forced To Leave Their Homes
Roads Being Opened
Telephone service with Frostburg, Lonaconing, Westernport and other George's creek towns is out and a definite account of the flood damage in that section was not available. However, it was reported the highways were open. The damage in most of the towns was reported to be great with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad tracks washed out in several spots.
HIGH WATER BLOCKS SICK CCC WORKER ON WAY TO HOSPITAL HERE
Pneumonia Patient Carried From Ambulance, Which Became Marooned On Cumberland Street, To Hospital On Improvised Stretcher; Man Falls Into Water; Woman Breaks Leg
Flood waters blocked an ambulance bringing Lawrence Collier, a member of the Sang Run CCC Camp in Garrett County, to Memorial Hospital late yesterday afternoon.
Collier, suffering from pneumonia, was in a critical condition at camp and was ordered to the hospital here.
Cigar Store Clerk Barely Escapes Drowning When Washed Through Window
Chas S. Brant is exhausted when rescued
Pulled From Water By Persons Leaning From Second Story Windows of Holtzman Drugstore
TOSSED ABOUT LIKE A PIECE OF WOOD
Victim Recovering In hospital From Cuts And Exposure: Felt He would Be Drowned
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18,
DAMAGE TO CITY ALONE BELIEVED TO BE MILLION
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and carrying danger to life and destruction of property in its wake.
Gas Service Continues
All during the night and clay in the flooded area as well as in the rest of Cumberland, its gas supply continued on, an untold blessing for heat and cooking. The Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Company, due to arrangement of its supply mains and connection with feeder mains, was able to continue that necessary utility without diminution.
City Buried Under Tons of Mud and Debris, Damage and Losses May Total $3,000,000
Damage to city alone believed to be million
Flood Crest Surges Out of Cumberland Leaving Wreckage and Destruction In Wake
LOCUST GROVE IS A TOTAL WRECK
At Least Four Families Left Homeless When Houses Are Washed Away
Destruction wrecked by flood in the last 24 hours in Cumberland and immediate vicinity will reach $3,000,000, according to conservative estimates this afternoon.